Don

On CBMW and particularly Grudem, they/he claim that the “women” verses are clear, and the question is whether to obey or not.

However the verses are not clear, and this intellectual dishonesty gets them in trouble, as it should.  But a byproduct of their claim is that SINCE the verses are supposedly clear, the interpretation of them needs to be consistent and supposedly have been since the beginning of their group. Hence they are VERY sensitive to a claim of inconsistency; as they know such if demonstrated is self-repudiating.

And now they find that both sides (the egals and the more non-egals) are pointing out their potential inconsistency.

I myself do NOT see them as inconsistent, GIVEN their interpretive choices.  However, the very idea of interpretive choices is somewhere they do not want to go, as they know they will then lose.